CINEMA OF SLEEP is an early film by Jeffrey St Jules, the director of the excellent SILENT PLANET. It stars Dayo Ade as an immingrant trying to bring his family from Africa. However there are complications.
This is a mind bending film where nothing is as it seems and reality constantly shifting. The opening for example ada Ade in a hotel room finding a body in his bed, only to have things shift to have him watching a film of his finding a body, only to have reality shift again and again. It's not weirdness just to mess with the audience, but something deeper and more compelling/ St Jules is driving somewhere, we just have to belt in and go with it.
And you have to, and should, just give yourself over to it and go where it wants to take you. This is a story with a lot going on and an interesting way to show it to you. It's not a film I can really discuss because the changing nature of what we are seeing reveals things that you can't know the first time through. Sitting, staring at my screen I realize that several things I want to say will diminish what happens. To that end stop reading and just see this film.
Trust me this film is a wicked ride, just stay with it because there is a point where you'll be locked in and dying to see how this goes (and trust me it isn't what you expect)
Rcommended.
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